Public furniture

Installed for only 30 days during August and September 2011, Times Square Meeting Bowls was a Public Art Project supported by the Times Square Alliance, University of Alcalá, Consulate General of Spain in New York and Spain Culture New York. During the installation, the Alliance estimated approximately 20,000,000 pedestrians saw the bowls.

Urban plugins is a series of flexible urban furniture, modular extensions that can be plugged to existing planters and light poles forming different configurations.

is a flexible piece of furniture that comes in lengths of 1, 2 or 3 metres. It can be used in combination with the FORUM bench to produce creative furniture arrangements.

Many things shape the face of a city: buildings, bridges, parks, sculptures... even benches! That's right, this simple form of public furniture can also add more emotion to a particular site.

Gallery of 10 Innovative Outdoor Benches Shaping Public Spaces - 10 #landscapeandurbanismarchitecture #landscape #and #urbanism #architecture

Modular furniture for public places

Hopper is an aluminium picnic table designed by Flemish furniture designer Dirk Wynants for his own company, Belgian furniture makers Extremis.

Yong Ju Lee Architecture have designed the Root Bench, a circle-shaped piece of public furniture that was designed to look like a root spreading throughout the park.

Image 22 of 27 from gallery of Zero Waste Lab 3D Prints Street Furniture from Household Plastic Waste . Print Your City. Image © Stefanos Tsakiris

Image 18 of 25 from gallery of Agora Maximus, Tactical Urbanism Project / LAAB Collective + Signature Design Communication. Photograph by Raphaël Thibodeau